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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the

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Missouri Compromise of 1820 and appliedthe principle of “popular sovereignty”to the issue of slavery so that local voters in Kansas and Nebraska would determineissue of slavery by their votes.

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The Missouri Compromise, Compromiseof 1850, and Kansas-NebraskaAct of 1854 focused primarily on

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extension of slavery intoareas of US expansion

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Sectional tensions betweenthe North and South increased in the 1840’s and 1850’s as the country struggledto deal with

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with the issue of the potentialexpansion of slavery into these new western areas of the U.S.

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African Americans,whether enslaved or free, could not be

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American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. Underthe Dred Scott case only whitepersons could be US citizens

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Also, Congress couldnot

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ban slavery from theterritories.

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underDred Scott, the Missouri Compromise was

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unconstitutional